Have you ever wondered if you could include yourself when taking a picture? Especially when you take a picture on your trip, you probably end up taking pictures without…

  This is a Rilakkuma face towel set. Rilakkuma is one of the famous character in Japan.   So KAWAII 😛   If the eBay link is dead and you…

This ceremonial dance in Shintoism originated from Mai dance, which was performed to pray to gods of shrine for special wishes. Later, Mai dance was formalized as Miko Kagura for…

  This is a weekly headline round-up of the posts titled [Japan after Quake] on our Facebook page.   [Oct.10] Japan will offer 10,000 foreigners free airfares to visit the country…

Bowling must be a popular sport in the world. Of course, there are many bowling lovers here in Japan, too. As for myself, there was a time when I was…

– What’s B-LABO? Who’s Bungu-o? –     The king of stationery, Masayuki Takabatake, obtained this mysterious looking box at an antique fair. I see some kanji letters meaning stone, poison,…

About a few months ago, I read about goods recycled from used baseball bats. What makes these goods unique is that they are recycled products from bats broken by players…

Autumn has come in Japan but let me write about a Japanese summer thing, goldfish. The booths for goldfish scooping game, which are, in brief, like fishing (lol) are invariably…

I assume that many of you use mobile phone and smart phone, but do you have mobile phone strap? In Japan, it is very common to have a favorite mobile…

  Japan’s No.2 construction equipment maker, Hitachi Construction Machinery Co,.Ltd developed a cool chunk of heavy machinery called ASTACO (an acronym for Advanced System with Twin Arm Complicated Operations, and it…

Last month on the JAPAN Style blog, we wrote about an actor’s funny tweets. He asked his fans about a cool car he saw on the street. As clues, he…